How E-Voting Threatens Democracy
How E-Voting Threatens Democracy
Electronic voting is supposed to streamline the process and rid us of the hanging chad. But the technology is rife with problems, creating the specter of botched returns and deliberate election rigging. Although many election officials defend the system, e-voting sti...more...The Fantasy and Reality of 2004
... like to see happen once would be for someone to have the nerve to stand up in such a national forum and call the exercise good phlogiston, state the electronic infrastructure's not fixable, that more education will never fix our computer virus 'problem' and that we'll all be back in three months to......more... When a Free Download Isn't Free
...d of its shelf life.
Fleishman hoped offering the entire book as a free PDF download might kick-start sales. Instead of printing the 922 pages of the electronic version, he reasoned, readers might buy a hard copy on Amazon or elsewhere instead. The PDF file weighs in at a whopping 23 MB because of a......more... Art Zine Stands Test of E-Time
... in M.J. Rose's notebook.
By M.J. Rose
2:00 a.m. Aug. 13, 2002 PDT
Online endeavors come and go faster than you can say Pets.com. But this month, the electronic magazine fineArt forum celebrates its 15th anniversary.
Created in 1987 as a bulletin board service celebrating the intersection of art, sc......more... The Dickens of EBay
...managed to democratize getting published.
Jason Epstein, author of Book Business, is one of the industry pundits who have predicted that Internet and electronic publishing tools like Palm's might eventually cut out many middlemen -- from publishers to bookstores.
At the same time, the need for more ......more... Font of Errors Plagued Awards
... launch of the International eBook Association (IeBA), a new e-book organization based in Europe that will work to address critical issues facing the electronic publishing community. Its principal goal will be to facilitate and accelerate the adoption of e-books.
A new set of e-book awards sponsored......more... Psalm's New E-Book Reader
...ooks of eight titles on Random's backlist.
U.S. District Judge Sidney H. Stein ruled that contracts for the titles were signed prior to the advent of electronic publishing and therefore didn't stipulate e-rights to the publisher.
Two of the three judges are needed to overturn the original decision. ......more... 2001 Was a Tough Read for E-Books
...in fact, they've now realized that e-publishing is really just publishing, and it's counterproductive to have a separate competing company to develop electronic books.
What was the best news of the last 12 months?
Michael S. Hart, director of Project Gutenberg: The number of e-books available for fr......more... IPublish.com: The Latest to Bomb
... M.J. Rose
2:00 a.m. Dec. 4, 2001 PDT
Almost two years and more than $10 million later, Time Warner Trade Publishing will close with great regret its electronic publishing division iPublish.com and let 29 employees go.
The e-book-only imprint had started to not only sell original e-books but to disc......more... |